4 72 239. Senecio. 89. COMPOSITE, C. PL ex. cal 
Senecio hirsutus, viscidus, major, odoratus, Raii Syn. 178, 2. 
Senecio fcetidus, Park. 671. 
Erigerum tomentosura, Ger. em. 278, 2. 
Senecio viscosus, Lin. S. P. 1217. 
Cotton groundsell. Stinking groundsell. 
Dry soils and rubbish; annual; July to October. 
Stem a foot high; calathides large, radiated; peduncles 
solitary ; pericline hirsute, viscid ; corollce gold-yellow. 
9. Senecio vulgaris . Common groundsel . 
Stem upright, branched ; leaves stem-clasping, pinnatifid, 
sinuated, toothed ; root-leaves petioled ; corymbus close ; 
bractece lanceolate, short, pressed close. 
Senecio vulgaris, Raii Syn. 178, 1 ; Park. 671. 
Erigerum, Ger. em. 278, 1. 
Senecio vulgaris, Lin. S.P. 1216. 
Senecio semperflorens, Stokes Rot. Mat. Med. 
Cultivated places ; annual ; all the year. 
Stem rather bald ; leaves blunt ; pericline bald ; calathides 
flosculous. — Juice or a strong infusion is emetic, and ver- 
mifuge, useful to expel botts from horses ; bruised leaves 
a good application to boils ; seeds or rather calathides in 
fruit given to small birds. 
LXV. 240. TUSSILAGO. Pliny. Colts-fooL 
Periclme cylindrical, becomes bellied, and afterwards 
entirely bent back ; scales many, linear, equal, in one se- 
ries; calathides radiated; flowers all fertile; of the centre 
tubular, hermaphrodite ; of the rays very numerous, female ; 
ligulse linear ; clinanthus flat, becoming globose, pitted, 
naked, bald ; akenia uniform, roundish ; pappus hairlike, 
sessile, white, longer than the akenium.— Herb flowering 
before the leaves appear ; calathides solitary ; peduncles 
scaly ; leaves radical, large, angular* 
Tussilago vulgaris . Common colts-foot . 
Leaves heartshape, angulate-toothed, beneath downy ; 
scape smooth, bracteated. 
Tussilago, Raii Syn. 173, 1 ; Ger. em. 811, 1 ; Park. 1220. 
Tussilago Farfara, Lin. S. P. 1214. 
Folefoot. Horse-hoof. Bullfoot. 
Damp chalky places; perennial; March and April. 
Root creeping ; scape tomentose ; bractecz bald ; calathides 
drooping, becoming upright ; leaves petioled, upright, above 
bald. — Leaves austere, bitter, mucilaginous, useful in coughs 
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